Blue

Sun-spangled dawn sky, midnight blue
In infinite glory you disclose yourself repeatedly
Beside the helpless city’s prison walls.
Here licks dense smoke’s coil
The furnace’s angry blaze here incessantly burns
Bloody stones in desert’s fiery breath covered,
Mirage-cloaked.
The lives of a countless travellers
Are snuffed searching interminably; find no clue of the path –
Domination’s cruel shackles coiled around their feet.
O unblinking blue, of this prison-house of a hundred thousand rules
Your wizard-rod has broken the spell!
Solitary midst the multitude-rush I muse
In which distant magic kingdom’s enchantment wrapped
Into the blood-embankment of the mundane have you arrived, alone –
In crystal light outspread your robe of blue –
Voiceless dream-peacock wing!
Erased from my eye the hunter-pierced earth’s blood-calligraphy,
Awakens within the self-rapt sky’s golden(1) flame!
Earth’s tear-pale heated(2) shore,
Tatter-clad, bare-headed beggar throng
This compassionless highway
Of innumerable terminally ill this prison
This dust – darkness pervaded smoke-womb
All drown in the blue – within an eyelid rapt in dream-expanse.
In conch-white cloud-masses, in a bright sky in constellation’s night
Earth’s worm-like withered moult breaks
At your lightning-touch, O sleepless distant wish-world!


1. fair
2. fevered